Fat experiences

I was front and center of a video call on a zoom meeting in front of a large audience on the projector screen and I looked absoutlely massive barley reconginzed myself legit did a double take

Wow! This has to make the top of a lot of lists. Just cause of how cartoonish it sounds.

Expect you'll laugh about your experience before long but why do we have seats like this, and worse still on airlines, that are too small for the population which we all know is getting bigger? Large people being forced to pay for two airline seats seems common practice and must be very uncomfortable. Fortunately I can still fit on a single airline seat but mostly I need a seat belt extender - but sometimes not. I'm amused at having to ask but others I know are embarrassed - why not simply fit longer belts?

One reason - money

I ran into a colleague I hadn’t seen in five or six weeks. She’s funny, sweet, and extremely straightforward—she just says whatever comes to her mind, no filter. You know the type. She stopped, looking surprised, widened her eyes, and grinned: "Wow! You gained some kilos!" Then she gestured in the air around her own imaginary love handles, squeezing them as if she were pinching invisible fat. She looked genuinely amused and taken aback.

I’m not that much heavier, and I haven't really gained that much. But I was very fit to begin with, so I guess it shows. Plus, I think some people are surprised that I, of all people, would gain weight. Normally, I can handle her comments—at work, we tend to be pretty direct with each other. But this time, I just felt my cheeks go red with embarrassment.

To add to it all, it was Friday, and the meeting room was full of croissants. Every time I reached for one, her face lit up with this teasing grin, clearly enjoying herself. She’s in a relationship, which I fully respect, but she still has this way of making a moment both funny and a little too honest—something only she can pull off.

I’m sorry but what was mortifying about going grocery shopping? I don’t think people actually care what you get or think oh this guy is going to eat all of that? Idk just put yourself in the shoes of someone else do you think you’d really think twice about what someone had in there cart?

We sexualize eating not many people even put to and to together

Imma level with ya, chief. You are overthinking this. No one at the grocery store cares what you are buying. No one is looking into your buggy.

And even if they did, there's nothing that looks weird. The only time people will raise an eyebrow is if you are buying things that suggest something nefarious or if you are buying truly excessive amounts of something.

Like if you bought 2 buggies full of nothing but cookies.

And even then, no one will pay attention to you that much. They have their own shit to do.

Ran into a friend from college who I knew when I was about 70 pounds lighter. They didn’t recognize me

Recently a couple of my high school friends decided to hold a football (soccer for my American friends) hangout , the thing is I hadn’t seen them in about 3 years , 3 years ago I was a completely different person, for starters I was in my high school football team for a couple of years then , I weighed about 90 or so pounds less 3 years ago and was a pretty frequent gym goer , so imagine their surprise when I show up to the hangout in my only fitting football jersey that’s still kinda tight on me , it was a mini pitch as well since it was 6v6 football and I was panting , sweating my ass off and just getting winded doing that for a couple of minutes when I could do this for hours before , eventually they noticed I was struggling and put me as the designated role every fat kid gets when playing football with their friends, I just got put as goalkeeper 💀
After the hangout some of them were concerned enough with my weight gain that they literally came up to me and asked whether I wanted to join the gym together with them and they could help me drop this weight and be gym partners yada yada, little did they know i gained weight on purpose ; )